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East Asia, Far East
Hardback. universities counter these trends and restore the palace of American higher learning. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417998
- ISBN
- 9781421417998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.61
€ 35.99
€ 30.61
Hardcover. Originally published: Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2008. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 201 x 20. Weight in Grams: 846.
- Publisher
- Kodansha America, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568364322
- ISBN
- 9781568364322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.78
€ 27.99
€ 25.78
Hardcover. The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; BGH; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471089704
- ISBN
- 9780471089704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.96
€ 40.99
€ 28.96
Hardback. Series: Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137511669
- ISBN
- 9781137511669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762069
- ISBN
- 9780804762069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Hardback. A consideration of the impact of racism and questions of sovereignty on genetic research, which details the exploitative history of research on Taiwanese Aborigines. Num Pages: 260 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774826594
- ISBN
- 9780774826594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Paperback. Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This title investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226730158
- ISBN
- 9780226730158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.78
€ 41.99
€ 32.78
Hardcover. Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 maps, 3 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 3 b&w illus., 1 map, 3 tab. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295995090
- ISBN
- 9780295995090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; JFC; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137565105
- ISBN
- 9781137565105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120594
- ISBN
- 9780230120594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardback. Examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSP1; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053342
- ISBN
- 9780674053342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.46
€ 50.99
€ 42.46
Hardback. The intense piety of late T'ang essays on Buddhism by literati has helped earn the T'ang its title of the "golden age of Chinese Buddhism." This study shows that many literati participated in intra-Buddhist debates. It demonstrates that representations of Buddhism by lay people underwent a major change during the T'ang-Sung transition. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC; HRAX; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022652
- ISBN
- 9780674022652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
€ 54.99
€ 46.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8pp b+w plates. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848845503
- ISBN
- 9781848845503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.81
€ 27.99
€ 23.81
hardcover. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730907
- ISBN
- 9780804730907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.96
€ 150.96
Paperback. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730914
- ISBN
- 9780804730914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Presenting an environmental history of China, this book is based on literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources that reveal the views of the Chinese people toward their environment and landscape. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300119930
- ISBN
- 9780300119930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.67
€ 26.99
€ 20.67
Paperback. In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. This book highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of people. It illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism. Series: History of Imperial China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 halftones, 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057340
- ISBN
- 9780674057340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.59
€ 30.99
€ 26.59
Paperback. After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. This title traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, and the introduction of religions. Series: History of Imperial China. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 halftones, 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060357
- ISBN
- 9780674060357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.89
€ 30.99
€ 25.89
Paperback. The Tang dynasty is often called China's golden age, a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. This title captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule. Series: History of Imperial China. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 illustrations, 17 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674064010
- ISBN
- 9780674064010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.89
€ 30.99
€ 25.89
Hardback. During Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan adopted assimilation as its administrative policy but was unable to integrate the Korean people as Japanese. This book traces the history of this policy to determine why Japan failed to attain its stated goals. Series: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPK; GTB; HBJF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989006
- ISBN
- 9780295989006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.15
€ 142.15